Railway car



June 1927' .H. T. ANDERSON RAILWAY CAR Filed Jan. 8, 1925 FIG. 2

FIG. 1

Patented June 28, 1927.

UMTED STATES HARRY 'r. ANDERSON, or BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY cA'n.

Application filed January 8, 1925. Serial No. 1,295.

My invention relates to improvements in railway cars, and particularly to the provision of means whereby lading such as ore, coal and the like may be conveniently and safely dislodged from the side or hopper sheets of steel or other cars, during the operation of unloading.

Heretofore it has been common to hit the sides of hopper or drop-bottom cars, such as ore cars, with sledge hammers or the like, to dislodge ore or other lading which had become frozen to or otherwise adhered to the car sides.

My invention has for one of its objects the provision of means whereby the shocks or blows may be more conveniently imparted to those portions of the car where the lading most commonly adheres.

Another object of my invention is to provide means of such form that the car is not likely to be seriously damaged through the application of hammer blows to dislodge the lading.

Some of the forms which my invention may take are shown in the accon'ipanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1, is a fragmentary sectional View showing one type of car to which my invention may be applied; Fig. 2 is a similar view, but of a different type of car; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, in elevation, of one ofthe impact devices of Fig. 1; F i is a side elevational view, partially in section, of the device of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 1s a bottom plan view of the device of Fig. 3, and Figs. (Sand '7 are end elevational and side elevational views respectively of a modified form of an impact transmitting device.

The impact receiving and transmitting device which constitutes the subject-matter of my invention may be applied either to the hopper sheets or the side sheets of railway cars, but it is most commonly applied to the hopper sheets, since they are inclined somewhat and the lading is more likely to become lodged at such points, by freezing or otherwise, than against the vertical sides of the car. i I

In Fig. 1 I have shown two impactreceiving members 8 applied to the hopper sheets 9 of a steel car. The impact member 8 consists of a nose portion 10 and wing portions 11. The wing portions are perforated so that they may be riveted to the car as shown in Fig. 4.

In the form shown in Figs. 1, 3, 4 and 5, the impact member is of a form to permit its application to the hopper sheets adjacent to a door-operating shaft, such as shaft 12. For this reason the member 8 is recessed to accommodate the shaft. It may be either a close bearing fit with the shaft, to assist in supporting the same, particularly at points widely spaced from the usual supports for the shaft, or sufficient clearance may be provided between the shaft and the walls of the recess to avoid transmission of shocks to the shaft when the nose 10 is struck by a hammer. Such clearance may be necessary where the impact member 8 is located adjacent to one of the usual shaft bearings.

In Figs. 2, 6 ing members 8 of a slightly modified form applied to hopper sheets 9" of the car. No provision is made in this form of device for accommodating a shaft, since they are located at points on the car that are not obstructed by a shaft. The members 8 are provided with nose portions 10 and perforated flanges 11 corresponding to the portions 10 and 11 of Figs. 3 and l.

The impact-receiving members are preferably of such length that they extend a sufficient distance horizontally from the sheets to which they are secured that their nose portions may bereadily struck by a sledge hammer or the like. This is an important advantage when used in connection with the hopper sheets, because ordinarily the operator in unloading the car has to swing his sledge from a point below the car body and the clearance between the ground and the hopper sheet is often insufficient to permit proper range of movement of the hammer. The deviceshown herein and described permits the hammer to be swung in substantially a'horizontal plane.

Another important feature of my invention resides in the strengthening and bracing effect of the impact members 8 and 8 through the provision of its widened base portion that is riveted to the car sheets. This largely eliminates damage to the sheets, as by dent-ingand the like, which results from the application of blows directly to and 7, I show impact receivside sheets by the hammer. Furthermore, indentations produced by the hammer blows aggravate the tendency of the lading to become lodged and tends to prevent free flow thereof from the car.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a railway car body, or an impact receiving member secured thereto, comprising a base portion and a nose portion, the said member being provided with a recess for the reception of a shaft intermediate the nose port-ion and the base portion.

2. The combination with a railway car having vertical side sheets and inclined hopimpact-receiving member which has a base portion secured to said wall, and a nose portion extending outwardly in a generally horizontal direction.

In testiniony whereof I, the said HARRY T. ANDERSON, have hereunto set my hand.

HARRY T. ANDERSON. 

